Over the last few weeks, I’ve written several times on the political games Congressional Democrats are playing with Iraq funding. They quietly worked to ensure that the Department of Defense would be able to continue the Iraq effort for several months, so that they could flaunt their defiance of the president on the Iraq supplemental appropriations. By giving the Pentagon the flexibility needed to fund the war, Democrats felt confident that they could not be blamed for cutting off funds needed by the troops in the field. It was surprising to me that none of the liberal, antiwar blogs wrote about this. None of them pushed back against this move to continue the war. Was it because they were not aware of it, or because they didn’t care? We got the proof yesterday, when several liberal blogs commented on this political game. Ironically, they approved of the move. First came ThinkProgress:
At a press conference this morning, Reps. John Murtha (D-PA) and David Obey (D-WI) rebutted the administration’s scare-mongering by noting that, just last week, Bush signed a $471 billion defense spending bill. That bill “contains enough money to continue military operations through mid-February, because of a provision that lets the administration shift money to the war from other Pentagon accounts.”
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